Word: contest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...effect in altering the judgement of the Faculty, and the end is not hard to foresee. The Faculty have the power, as they evidently have the will, to prevent any student in the College, the Lawrence Scientific School, or the Graduate School, from taking part in an intercollegiate football contest. For the present they waive this power, doubtless hoping that the Athletic Committee will save them from the necessity of exercising it; but intercollegiate football contests, whether voluntarily or involuntarily abandoned, can hardly be anticipated for next fall...
...Saturday last a meeting of the executive committee of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association was held in New York. A great many details relating to the annual intercollegiate contest were discussed and some important matters were acted upon. George Crompton '95 is the Harvard member of the committee...
...meeting of the executive committee of the Harvard Fencing Club last evening it was decided to accept Columbia's challenge for a contest, on condition that the latter send the trophy that Harvard won last year to the Harvard Fencing Club. The trophy, which is to be an appropriate brouze statuette, has not yet been completed. The executive committee took this stand on the ground that the Harvard club could not be challenged for a trophy that it has never received, and also that the symbol of the victory of last year's team might be publicly exhibited...
...interesting to see how thoroughly awakened Yale is to her need for improvement in the art of debate. The last contest with Harvard has apparently made defeat do longer endurable, and every effort is being made to provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request...
...Hoyt '98 will enter the pole vault contest in the Yale games next Friday...